How does the United States compare with other countries with respect to maternity leave?
a. The United States offers the least generous maternity leave of any country in the world.
b. The United States offers the most generous maternity leave of any country in the world.
c. The United States offers a strong maternity leave compared with most other countries.
d. The United States offers a weak maternity leave compared with most other countries.
Support among Americans for tighter gun control has ______ over the past 50 years.
a. decreased
b. increased among younger persons, but has decreased among those people over age 40
c. remained steady
d. increased
During the first half of the twentieth century, the number of people treated in mental hospitals increased by a large amount. Today, this trend has been reversed by a countertrend toward __________.
a. decriminalization
b. deinstitutionalization
c. detoxification
d. decarceration
Which statement best reflects the maternity leave policy in the United States?
a. Mothers are given 6 weeks of paid maternity leave.
b. Mothers are given 12 weeks of unpaid leave if they have a qualifying employer.
c. Mothers are given 12 weeks of paid maternity leave.
d. Mothers are given 3 months of paid maternity leave
What is the major argument used by the NRA to oppose gun control?
a. Gun control measures would interfere with capitalism and a free market.
b. Gun control measures would decrease public safety.
c. Gun control measures would violate religious freedom.
d. Gun control measures would violate the right to bear arms that is contained in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Families in which one or both of the adult partners have at least one child, either residing with them or living elsewhere, are called __________.
a. part-time families
b. cohabiting families
c. single-parent families
d. stepfamilies
Rehabilitation programs that allow the prisoner to leave the prison during the day to work at an outside job are known as __________ programs.
a. furlough
b. apprenticeship
c. work release
d. probation
The key to locality-based, out-patient treatment of mental patients is a small residential community in which the patient resides when in transition from hospital treatment to complete release. This community is termed a __________.
a. work-release house
b. hospital-home transition house
c. halfway house
d. pre-release house
Nick and Maya are considering a divorce. They have two young children and are wondering whether it would be better for their children if they divorced or remained married.
If you were the mediator, how would you address their concern about whether to divorce or stay together for the sake of the child? a. Children are generally better off when conflict-ridden parents divorce, but non-conflict-ridden parents stay together.
b. Children are generally better off when unhappily married parents stay together.
c. Children are generally better off when parents divorce and remarry someone else.
d. Children are generally better off when parents divorce, but divide their assets equally.
According to the text, the nature of the __________ itself is a major hindrance to rehabilitative efforts.
a. criminal law system
b. prison system
c. legal system
d. parole system
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